SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye on Monday warned of possible North Korean provocations, saying the likelihood of unrest in Pyongyang could rise amid signs of “serious cracks” in the communist regime. During a National Security Council (NSC) session, the commander-in-chief pointed out that the recent defection of North Korean elites, including [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday threatened to mount a “preemptive nuclear strike” on South Korea and the United States as the allies kicked off their annual military exercise aimed at countering Pyongyang’s potential aggression. The command and control exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian, began its two-week run on Monday, involving tens of [...]
SEONGJU, South Korea, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Residents of Seongju on Sunday officially requested that the government pick an alternate site within their county for the deployment of the advanced U.S. missile defense system. The emergency committee set up to respond to Seoul’s plan to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery [...]
SEOUL/SEONGJU, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Residents of Seongju said Friday that they can consider an alternate site for the the advanced U.S. defense shield if the government scraps its initial decision to place the system at an existing anti-aircraft missile base. The emergency committee opposed to the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A Britain-based senior North Korean diplomat directly flew to South Korea after expressing his wish to defect to the Seoul government, a source said Friday. Thae Yong-ho, who served as a minister at North Korea’s embassy in London, and his family arrived in South Korea late last month without [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military said Thursday that it will carry out the largest-ever artillery drill near the border with North Korea to demonstrate its determination to retaliate against future provocations. The drill will take place in the afternoon, one day before South Korea marks the first anniversary of the North’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense chief on Wednesday defended the government’s decision to select Seongju, a southeastern county, as the site for an advanced anti-missile system to counter threats from North Korea, according to military officials. In a meeting with representatives of Seongju residents held in the rural town from 2:00 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense chief will visit Seongju, the selected site for an advanced U.S. anti-missile system this week, to hold talks with local residents angered by the “unilateral” deployment decision, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Han Min-koo will visit the rural county, 296 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Wednesday, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – “I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for death,” said American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in her poem ‘Conscientious Objector’. South Korean law currently mandates that all men between 18 and 25 years of age complete a period of military service. As of 2016, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has publicly executed some 60 people so far this year as the reclusive country’s leader Kim Jong-un strengthens his reign of terror, a source said Friday. The move aimed at putting fear into the people comes as more ordinary North Koreans are expressing dissatisfaction as Pyongyang has [...]